Overview
- Addresses a set of foundational arguments at the origins of analytic philosophy
- Sheds new light on the understanding of the history of philosophy
- Extracts precepts for rationally responding to paradigm shifts in scientific and religious traditions
- Places Frege's thought within the context of Cohen's Kantianism
Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture (PSCC, volume 27)
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About this book
This book examines the views of Hermann Helmholtz, Hermann Cohen and Gottlob Frege in reaction to the epistemic crises induced by rapid changes in 19th century scientific practice. Besides addressing longstanding interpretive puzzles of interest to Frege scholars, the book extracts precepts for rationally responding to paradigm shifts in scientific and religious traditions. Cohen’s work in particular is held up as an example of wisely navigating epistemic and hermeneutical crises in science and religion. The book will appeal to philosophers and historians of science or religion, especially to those concerned with the epistemic challenges posed by Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
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About the author
Teri Merrick received her PhD from the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at University of California, Irvine. She is currently a Professor of Philosophy at Azusa Pacific University. Her publications, which include works on philosophy of mathematics, the role of the emotions in science and religion, and feminist and postcolonial perspectives on science, have appeared in Philosophia Mathematica, Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion, Christian Scholar’s Review, InterVarsity Press and Oxford University Press.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Helmholtz, Cohen, and Frege on Progress and Fidelity
Book Subtitle: Sinning Against Science and Religion
Authors: Teri Merrick
Series Title: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57299-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-57298-3Published: 29 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-57301-0Published: 29 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-57299-0Published: 28 October 2020
Series ISSN: 0928-9518
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1753
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 280
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophical and Historical Foundations of Science, History of Religion